Jeff Goodell Quotes
Despite all the progress climate scientists have made in understanding the risks we run by loading the atmosphere with CO2, the world is still as addicted to fossil fuels as ever.
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Well Sid Pollack was... He was I would say probably, probably the most influential on me.
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'Free State of Jones' went beyond that. It got into how the South wasn't as homogenous as we thought it was - or even the North for that matter, where we like to assume everyone wanted to free the slaves and they were all abolitionists. It actually shows how complex these ideologies were on both sides.
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Social revolutions are never simple.
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My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
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When you cease to dream you cease to live.
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I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I've had, they'd look like they were through. Done. But there's something about me - I'm smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I'm smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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If you want to read and you want to draw, that helps you to express yourself.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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Since first starting my career, I've grown accustomed to working with actors older than me. I'm always the youngest.
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When boasting ends, there dignity begins.
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In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
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Josh Brolin is fascinating to watch because he is just so effortless. It's like watching a really gifted athlete run, and I just didn't have that.
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Sexiness, particularly in movies, is the chess game in the 'Thomas Crown Affair'. It's, it's, I don't know, but Faye Dunaway comes up a lot in that thinking. It's the subtlety of sexiness. The moment you try to be sexy, then it's not.
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So if I'm 36, and I have my 19-year-old self, I'm pulling him to the side and saying, 'Listen bruh, throwing on your Timbs and your fitted hat and strolling campus trying to get a girl to say yes, or going to the club hoping you bring a girl home, that's not the way to go about healthy relationships. You need to step back.'
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To film in water is three times harder than just on land.
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But the exposure we got by doing the stint with Nine Inch Nails brought us a lot of attention.
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If die I must, let me die drinking in an Inn.
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Well, obviously I was excited by the idea that Woody Allen was going to direct it. But at the same time, the script itself and the character was really interesting.
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Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self.
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I’ve gotta get out of the basement. I’ve gotta see the world. I’ve gotta make a difference
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I've never spoken with Michelle Fields.
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When entrepreneurs are free to compete, they grow the pie so that everyone's share gets larger.
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Despite all the progress climate scientists have made in understanding the risks we run by loading the atmosphere with CO2, the world is still as addicted to fossil fuels as ever.
